Tallywackers: A Brief Chapter in Dallas Gay History | By Kat Haygood Tallywackers opened on Lemmon Avenue in Oak Lawn in May 2015, billing itself as the male answer to Hooters. Its young, muscular male servers wore revealing uniforms, with shirtless service in the evenings. The restaurant quickly became a novelty in Dallas’s gayborhood, drawing gay men alongside bachelorette parties, straight couples and curious diners. It was part restaurant, part nightlife spectacle, and very much a product of the mid-2010s. But the novelty didn't last. Tallywackers closed in 2016 after roughly fifteen months, leaving behind little more than memories, photographs and a colorful footnote in Oak Lawn history. It may have been short lived, but Tallywackers captured a particular moment in Dallas gay culture, when being visible, playful and unapologetically sexual could itself become a business model